Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 56
The queen was in great distress; and she and other fairies followed Rupsinh’s tracks until they came near the elephant mountain.
Who acts: queen, fairies · What happens: be, follow, come · To what, where: great distress, tracks, elephant mountain
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, fairies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 distress | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 distress | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 distress | case |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 distress | amod |
| 6 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 followed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 followed | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 followed | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fairies | cc |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fairies | amod |
| 12 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 she | conj |
| 13 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 distress | conj |
| 14 | Rupsinh | Rupsinh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 tracks | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Rupsinh | case |
| 16 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 followed | obj |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 19 came | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 followed | advcl |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 23 mountain | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mountain | det |
| 22 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mountain | compound |
| 23 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 distress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the queen | great distress | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | queen | Rupsinh's tracks | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | fairies = fairy | the elephant mountain | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near mountain=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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